smail-2.5 fix for domain gateway routing

[Neil Rickert]

In article <1991Jan24.034941.3360 at Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> mcr at Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michael Richardson) writes:

>  The IDA systems seems to prefer rabid-rerouting (it certainly makes
>it easier) but doesn't seem to insist upon it.

  This is not true.  The standard announced IDA package will not do any
rerouting other than deliberately chosen in user databases, and NEVER does
'rabid rerouting' -- i.e. never removes uucp hosts from the address.

  The package does to header simplification.  That is, it will change the
header address:  uunode1!uunode2!full.domain.name!user to
full.domain.name!user (which it may reformat as user at full.domain.name).
But this happens on HEADERS, not on the actual destinations which are in
the envelope.  It is based on the principal of using a simple address as
possible, but following the envelope recipient addresses so that manual
override is possible where needed.


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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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